Prophet Nuh

After many years Adam had grandchildren and even great

grandchildren. There were now lots of people on earth. Many of them
obeyed Allah but some were not so good and did just what they wanted
to do all the time.

This made Allah very unhappy. Allah chose Nuh, a good man, to
tell the people that what they were doing was wrong. But they wouldn't
listen to him and carried on doing bad things. Allah decided that all the
naughty people should be punished. Allah told Nuh to build a big ark
near his house. Nuh quickly got busy choosing good wood and building
it up into a fine ark.

A lot of people laughed at him but he did not take any notice of
them, because Allah had told him what to do. When he had finished, he
put lots of food into the ark and collected the good people together.
They also took lots of animals with them into the ark, two of every
kind.

One day, all of a sudden, the sky went very dark and it started to rain.
The rain was lightly at first, then became more and more heavily. Soon
there was water everywhere. The bad people were not laughing
anymore. They were frightened because they had no shelter from the
water. Only the good people in the ark were safe and dry.